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mjd119

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Registered: 2020-05-07

Posts: 119

How to get MPD to disregard cuesheets?

How do I get mpd and/or ncmpcpp to completely ignore cuesheets? Since a certain version of mpd, I noticed that when I typed the space to add a directory in the "Browse" view on ncmpcpp tracks are added both from the cuesheet and the actual music files. The cuesheets typically reference wav files and almost all of my mpd library is FLAC files so using cuesheets with mpd is not useful to me. I end up getting duplicate tracks with some that are unplayable and have no time length listed.  I believe this issue is restricted to mpd since this is a problem on ncmpcpp and when I use the M.A.L.P. app on my Android phone. I have looked through the Archwiki, the mpd documentation, and the forums without very much luck. I would prefer not to have to manually select each track to add to a playlist.

Last edited by mjd119 (2020-10-15 20:41:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,231

Re: How to get MPD to disregard cuesheets?

https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/user.h … st-plugins

https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/plugin … st-plugins

playlist_plugin {
    name "cue"
    enabled "false"
}

note all the other plugins there mentioning reading cuesheet data including something grabbing flac metadata, include those as well as necessary.

Last edited by V1del (2020-10-22 10:48:14)

iconoclasthero

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Registered: 2024-01-31

Posts: 1

Re: How to get MPD to disregard cuesheets?

create .mpdignore files for all .cue files in mpd's music directory.  removes cue tracks in MPD 0.23.5

../music $ find . -iname "*.cue" > cuefiles && while read -r i; do echo "$i" >>"${i%/*}/.mpdignore"; done< cuefiles && rm cuefiles

This could be done as a one liner, but in case you want to break it apart and look at e.g., the results of the find command.

Last edited by iconoclasthero (2024-01-31 13:20:19)